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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
The Nesokia has apparently not yet been recorded from any other locality in Egypt 
than from the banks of the Sweet Water Canal, between Big and Little Shaluf, near 
Suez, where its numerous burrows and tortuous well-padded runs are concealed 
amongst long sedgy grass and stunted spiny shrubs. In this locality one of the 
animals was dug out under my directions. 
It is well known to the natives, both Egyptians and Arabs, by the name * Girdi. 
Every effort to obtain specimens, or to get information regarding it in any other 
quarter, proved unavailing. 
